Re: [rfa/i386] Make codestream deprecated?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:13:50PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:03:33PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > 
> > >Besides: this is why you should _remove_ them, rather than just
> > >commenting them, if you want them to go away.
> > 
> > The implication here being that I'm not removing deprecated code?
> 
> A heck of a lot slower than you're deprecating!  There are now over
> 1200 references to deprecated constructs in GDB.  That's just a rough
> estimate, mind.
> 
> I understand why release branches are bad points to compare against for
> this, but since I have several handy:
>   ~150 deprecated references in gdb 5.3
>   ~30 in gdb 5.2
> 
> > The simple reality is that it is not possible for a single individual 
> > remove all the old code in a single hit.  It takes a group of people 
> > co-operating, and it takes time.

I feel the need to add:

If you are deprecating things single-handedly, what group of people do
you expect to co-operate?  It's a matter of cleaning up after yourself.

> Sure, it takes time.  Not all that much time, though; and it doesn't
> have to be done all at once.  I prefer to remove it from one target at
> a time and then remove support for it entirely.  There should be a
> reasonably close alternative available; after all, it's being
> deprecated in favor of something.
> 
> > If you look through the change log you'll notice that deprecated methods 
> > are being removed from the core of GDB, but the -tdep and -nat files are 
> > being left largely untouched.  Then, every so often, I or another 
> > maintainer will expunge the deprecated code from a target being it back 
> > into synck.  Over time the old code moves to the edges of gdb where it 
> > wilters and dies.
> 
> I don't see this happening.  I see it move to the edge of GDB where it
> withers, period.
> 
> To come back to the case at hand, this construct has already "moved"
> (started out?) to the edge of GDB.  Deprecating it isn't going to help
> it wither.
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
> 

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer